ABSTRACT
As a research methodology, logical argumentation draws from seemingly disconnected factors and weaves them into a single explanatory matrix. This chapter draws from early Greek terms for the word “ethos” and overlays them with the poststructuralist Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space as a social production. The result is a logical framework that offers a new generalizable construct: ethos-intensive objects (EIOs). EIOs, in their ability to bridge between material forms and human feelings of attachment to locale, are a new way to assess the ethos of any locality. Interiority here places the researcher into the communal outlook of any given locale, in ways that perhaps are not otherwise comprehensible with respect to sense of place.
